Model Driven Development of Process-centric Web Applications

Mario L. Bernardi, Marta Cimitile, Fabrizio M. Maggi

2012

Abstract

Despite Model Driven Engineering (MDE) approaches are largely used to develop, update and evolve Web Applications (WAs), the use of these approaches for the development of process-centric WAs is still very limited. This is an important issue in the context of MDE considering thatWAs are often used to support users in the execution of business processes. In this paper, we propose the integration of three MDE metamodels used to represent the structure of information, service and presentation layers of a WA with the metamodel of Declare, a declarative language for business process rapresentation. The declarative nature of Declare allows us to combine an efficient roundtrip engineering support with the advantages of an MDE approach. We present and discuss a case study where the proposed approach is used to develop a typical online shopping application with the aim to validate and verify the feasibility and the effectiveness of the approach.

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L. Bernardi M., Cimitile M. and M. Maggi F. (2012). Model Driven Development of Process-centric Web Applications . In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends - Volume 1: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-8565-19-8, pages 340-346. DOI: 10.5220/0004069903400346


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@conference{icsoft12,
author={Mario L. Bernardi and Marta Cimitile and Fabrizio M. Maggi},
title={Model Driven Development of Process-centric Web Applications},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends - Volume 1: ICSOFT,},
year={2012},
pages={340-346},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004069903400346},
isbn={978-989-8565-19-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends - Volume 1: ICSOFT,
TI - Model Driven Development of Process-centric Web Applications
SN - 978-989-8565-19-8
AU - L. Bernardi M.
AU - Cimitile M.
AU - M. Maggi F.
PY - 2012
SP - 340
EP - 346
DO - 10.5220/0004069903400346